Post a photo. Is it in ground or in a container? If in a container, what is the soil?

I posted photos here is before

This is current

This is the aftermath

There are around six stems in the before photo and only four in the after. What happened to the missing stems?

What soil do you have this planted in? How often do you water? How do you determine that water is needed?

I would second the use of the gritty mix for jade plants. Mine take about four months to settle in and start root growth, so you can be misled in the first four months into believing the plant is not adapting. But once the root growth starts, jade plants seem to just thrive in the gritty mix.

I also second the idea that your soil looks wrong for this plant. It looks like it has too much compost in it. I see areas near the stem that are stained with water, which indicates a lot of water retention in the topsoil.

Gritty mix in the full sun does not work with many plants unless you are willing to be a slave to watering the plant constantly. Jades are an exception to that and they do very well in that sparse well-drained soil mix.

When you transplant this to better draining soil, I would bare root the plant and get all the old soil completely washed off the roots.

I would like to repot my jade in gritty mix and am curious how to bare root the plant. i.e. assuming I would cause root damage by bare rooting, how long should I leave them in open air before repotting?

David - Just put it in gritty mix right away, no issue.

Thanks @ewwmayo

David

You can do as ewwmayo said, or leave plant unpotted. How long? - it will survive for a long time. Succulents store lots of water for later use, since they are plants from arid regions. Jade will live for months if unpotted. I am not saying you should do it on purpose, but jade will live...actually, it will recover from lack of water easier and faster than from over-watering, that could cause rot.

To bare root, just take it out of present pot, shake off existing soil. If caked on the roots, you can tease it with a stick or even tiny rake or fork...do not worry if some roots get broken - they will regrow fast in new mix. Any dry or damaged roots needs to be cut off anyway. Pruning/trimming roots is a common technique. It will encourage growth of new roots. If you do lots of cutting, let cuts callus. Usually, maybe an hour could be enough, but np if you have to leave it unpotted for several days or even longer. Many ppl pot up plant immediately. That will work if you use dry mix. It is best to pot plant in dry mix, and water it next day to allow for any callusing. If roots were thick, I would wait for few hours or overnight with potting.

Here is photo of trimmed roots - before and after:

If you are not sure, take clear close-up and post...

Thank you, Rina! I plant in Al's gritty mix and have just been learning about root pruning from some of his posts. I have some larger cacti (7' cereus peruvianus monstrose) and succulents (3' jade) and have been concerned about repotting them, specifically related to how long to leave them out after root pruning so that they callous/heal properly before new pot with gritty mix.

Good you are reading posts by Al...That is where I learned what I know.

If you prune thick roots and are concerned about them callusing, you could lightly dust cuts with flowers of sulfur, or powdered cinnamon, both are fungicides. Even some rooting hormones have fungicide in them. I wouldn't really bother - roots are really not too thick, but I have used powdered cinnamon on large cuts in the past.

Plant in the photo in my previous post that had pruned roots were potted same day and I didn't use any fungicide. So it cas callusing for few hours.

I only wish there was a book or more easily digestible format to read all of Al's material.